 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - 1865 - Страниц: 478
...whitish sandstone, and are so absolutely vertical that in many places a person, standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees...distant in front, another line of cliff extends, which then appears completely to encircle the valley, hence the name of bay is justified as applied to this... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - 1865 - Страниц: 482
...whitish sandstone, and are so absolutely vertical that in many places a person, standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees...little stream, it is said to be necessary to go sixteen miK-s round. About five miles distant in front, another line of cliff extends, which then appears completely... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1886 - Страниц: 272
...sea-coast. These cliffs are so absolutely vertical that in many places a person standing on the edge, and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below. About five miles distant, in the front, another line of cliff extends, which then appears completely... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1888 - Страниц: 350
...waterfall formed by this little .stream it is said to be necessary to go sixteen miles round. Above five miles distant in front another line of cliff'...completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of the bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression. If we imagine a winding... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1890 - Страниц: 354
...whitish sandstone, and are so absolutely vertical that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone can see it strike the trees...is said to be necessary to go sixteen miles round. Above five miles distant ha front another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle... | |
 | William Hanson - 1892 - Страниц: 490
...whitish sandstone, and are eo absolutely vertical that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone can see it strike the trees...order to reach the foot of the waterfall formed by the little stream, it is said to be necessary to go sixteen miles round. About five miles distant in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 542
...whitish sandstone ; and are so absolutely vertical, that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees...this little stream, it is said to be necessary to go sixioen miles round. About five miles distant in front, another line of cliff extends, which thus appears... | |
 | John Milne Curran - 1898 - Страниц: 424
...sandstone ; and so absolutely vertical are they, that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone can see it strike the trees in the abyss below. So unbroken is the line that it is said, in order to reach the foot of the waterfall formed by this little stream, it is necessary... | |
 | Fanny Louisa Dorothea Herbertson - 1903 - Страниц: 262
...whitish sandstone, and are so absolutely vertical, that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below. So unbroken is the line of cliffs, that in order to reach the foot of the waterfall, formed by this little stream, it is said... | |
 | John Michael Taylor - 1914 - Страниц: 362
...iron-stained sandstone, and " are so absolutely vertical that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone can see it strike the trees in the abyss below. . . If we imagine a winding harbour, with its deep water surrounded by bold cliff-like shores, to be... | |
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These cliffs are composed of horizontal strata of whitish sandstone ; and are so absolutely vertical, that in many places a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below. So unbroken is the line... 
